Knowing the Rules

One of key element to achieve financial freedom is via knowing the rules to be rich. We must fully aware and knowledge about the rules in financial matter including banking, taxation, etc. How we can benefit from knowing the rules?

To answer on how we can benefit is mainly on how we can fully utilize the rules to protect our savings or investments. As a footballer, he must know the rules on do’s and don’ts when playing for a team. Before ahead with skills, we must fully aware all relevant rules in any fields. Similarly, we must know the fundamental in finance subject matter then develop the skills as experience grows.

Experience in finance subject matter could be developed directly from own experience or indirectly by reading, attending talks, etc. Gaining experience not necessarily would be something positive but negative as well from both ways either direct or indirect. However, applying both experiences appropriately could lead to awesome results where almost all risks taken are measurable risks and able to minimize it. Rule of thumb in finance subject matter or developing investment portfolio it is recommended to gain as much of negative experiences from secondary sources.

How can we define our secondary experiences to avoid this happen to us while executing our tasks towards financial freedom? As highlighted earlier, we must able to gain somebody else experiences via reading books, attending talks, seminars, chatting, etc. which normally this well-known investor have published their books to be shared publicly so that people can benefit from their previous loopholes.

Gaining secondary experiences can be one of the way knowing the rules in developing investment portfolio where there could be something totally new to us since we are not familiar with the particular investment area. Hence, whatever investment portfolio we’re developing we must know the rules which is must be obviously legitimate in our country and it is halal for Muslims. Again, educate ourselves with knowledge so that we’re always up-to-date with latest rules and always conscious with any potential opportunities.